Among East Austin natives, Wilson’s late father, Johnny Holmes, is synonymous with the success of Victory Grill.

Contest seeks to top $200,000 in lifetime donations to Institute East Side Lake should have plenty of ice this year to host the return of the Austin area's only ice fishing contest later this month.

American architecture practice Side Angle Side architects drew on the ‘monolithic adobe buildings of west Texas high country’ for its latest residential design, a house for a photographer in Austin.

They decided to open their shop in east Austin, because that is where they grew up as barbers. They wanted to contribute to the east side, as this area of town that contributed to them.